I Don't Want to Protest, But

The good news: a pack of gray wolves has been spotted in the Sierra Nevada near Sequoia National Park, California.

The bad news: if yet another tv actor runs for President I’m going to cry: first it was Ronald Reagan and then it was Donald Trump.

I might be on the verge of crying, I might be a crybaby.

The good news is quietly boiling away in a small cast-iron pot somewhere. Just the other day, as if out of nowhere, bunch of kids in Montana won a monumental lawsuit against state agencies that violated their ‘constitutional right to clean and healthful environment.’

The bad news is always worse. And so we read the news or listen to it or see it on tv where it’s presented in 2-minute soundbites backed by symphonic support from drug companies with euphoric names like Rinvoq and Skyrizi and Paxlovid, the 3 leading drug brands in the US in terms of TV advertising spending. The bad news—about $100 million in sales just by these 3 companies annually—consumed by people with happy faces and presumably perfectly good new hearts pumping ever-lower amounts of cholesterol or whatever else it is into their central-casting scripted tv appearances.

The wolf’s at the door. Maybe that’s a good thing.